The Eighth Generation of Video Gaming: My Predictions

Since Nintendo 3DS kick-started the eighth generation of video games in February 2011, here's what I think should happen during the eighth generation of video gaming.

Nintendo Wii U and Ouya has already come out and the forthcoming PS4 and Xbox One will come out later next month, so here's my predictions of the next step for the eighth generation. However, it's too early for the ninth generation of video gaming to happen, so that would expect sometime between 2018 and 2020.

Sega Dreamcast 2

It's a shame that the famous Japanese-American (Sega is indeed Japanese-American, it started in Hawaii in the late 1940s before relocating to Japan sometime during the mid 1960s) video game developer have stopped making video game consoles after Dreamcast was discontinued in 2001, though it has a spiritual successor - the Xbox.

Possible Game Boy revival

We haven't had any Game Boy handheld console since the launch of the smaller Micro in 2005, so maybe it would be nice if Nintendo brought back the Game Boy. The closest thing that the Game Boy continued production was when the Nintendo DS had backward compatibility with Game Boy Advance.

N-Gage Xbox

After all these years, Microsoft is one of the only video game manufacturers to have never made a handheld console. Since Nokia is soon to be part of Microsoft once the acquisition deal closes, it would be nice if Nokia revived the N-Gage device (yes, I know some people criticised the idea alongside with people calling the design a space taco) and had integrated with Xbox software.

My idea is that unlike the previous device, it would not be a phone, it will only be a video game console but a twist - the games is downloadable. It would also have Windows software. 

Atari revival

Who could forget that Atari had made good consoles from the Seventies until the Eighties.

Apple iTV console

Apple has done quite well with their iPod touch hybrid handheld/PDA/MP4 device, which I would consider it as part of the seventh generation.

Nintendo Wii DVD add-on

I really think that Nintendo should make an add on for the Wii U.

Gizmondo 2

Gizmondo 2 almost happened in 2008, but overshadowed. One reason: Car crash caused by 
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